Hey, WNYT, we know it’s raining outside!

For more than two hours now WNYT (Ch. 13) has distracted viewers of the U.S. Open golf championship with a continuous crawl giving weather warnings.

Yes, TV can be a key vehicle for weather, even though I can get the same information by opening my door, but enough is enough!

None of the other stations is doing it. (WTEN did it during ABC’s WNBA game for awhile, but no one was watching because it was a WNBA game.) One crawl every five minutes would be tolerable, but this thing simply won’t go away.

Weathermen have far too much power at TV stations in this market. It seems to always happen on Saturdays, and it always disrupts sports programming. They’ve got to find a less-obtrusive way of conveying this information.